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Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983

1983, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Andorra is highest, at 17.2845; Afghanistan is lowest, at 9.3386. The middle country reads 13.3362. Against 1982, 222 values changed (163 up, 59 down), the same countries are covered.

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Life Expectancy at Age 65 · Data for 1983

HighestAndorra

17.2845

LowestAfghanistan

9.3386

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983, as published. UN DESA Population Division ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1AndorraANDSouthern Europe17.284520.338115.0435
2GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe17.142518.053115.7072
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.043019.018015.0574
4CanadaCANNorthern America17.027819.070014.7800
5JapanJPNEastern Asia17.011918.464815.2471
6Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.817417.938215.6933
7San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe16.712118.299414.9797
8SpainESPSouthern Europe16.684818.148814.8619
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe16.677818.447714.5362
10United StatesUSANorthern America16.667418.581614.3650
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.655618.517414.6529
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.552718.444514.4551
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.522718.715014.0163
14FranceFRAWestern Europe16.493918.386814.1648
15AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.475118.433514.2490
16LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe16.372618.354814.0784
17MonacoMCOWestern Europe16.300618.210614.1302
18CubaCUBCaribbean16.278617.584315.1751
19GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.267617.562314.9369
20Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe16.144017.747914.6340
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.101217.507314.2632
22IsraelISRWestern Asia16.008416.861015.1293
23BahamasBHSCaribbean15.980617.642514.1220
24Costa RicaCRICentral America15.925816.908014.8881
25DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.877017.747813.7989

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Andorra17.2845
  2. 2Gibraltar17.1425
  3. 3Iceland17.0430
  4. 4Canada17.0278
  5. 5Japan17.0119

Lowest

  1. 222Afghanistan9.3386
  2. 221Timor-Leste9.5401
  3. 220Eritrea9.8405
  4. 219South Sudan10.0319
  5. 218Ethiopia10.1270

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.3362. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 163 · 59rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1983.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1983). Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/life-expectancy-at-65/1983

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07Questions

Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest life expectancy at 65 in Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983?

Andorra, at 17.2845, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983 cover?

222.

Where can I download Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Life Expectancy at Age 65, 1983 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Life Expectancy at Age 65, 2023.

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